Category Archives: World
Insulating skin on high-rises has fueled fires before London
For the last decade, engineers specializing in fire safety have worried about the hidden danger posed by the kind of insulated metallic skin that transported flames up a high-rise apartment building i...
Jun 18, 2017
Islamic State poses a growing threat to Southeast Asia
WASHINGTON - Southeast Asia’s jihadis who fought by the hundreds for the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria now have a different battle closer to home in the southern Philippines. It’s ...
Jun 18, 2017
Hundreds of thousands at Brazil's massive gay pride parade
SAO PAULO - Hundreds of thousands of revelers gathered in Sao Paulo on Sunday for one of the world’s largest gay pride parades with this year’s event focusing on the threat of religious fu...
Jun 18, 2017
Israel goodwill Ramadan efforts cut after Palestinian attack
JERUSALEM - Israel revoked on Sunday the permits of 200,000 Palestinians to enter Israel that were approved for the holy month of Ramadan following two near simultaneous Palestinian attacks on police ...
Jun 18, 2017
The Latest: Portugal raises death toll back to 62
LISBON, Portugal - The Latest on the Portugal forest fires (all times local): 11:55 p.m. Portuguese Interior Minister Constanca Urbano de Sousa said the death toll in a forest fire had risen to 62 by ...
Jun 18, 2017
Leaping into water tanks to escape Portugal's deadly fires
NODEIRINHO, Portugal - Survivors emerged Monday with stories of leaping into water tanks and other dramatic escapes from the forest fires scorching central Portugal, and authorities came under mountin...
Jun 18, 2017
Philippines eyes truce with communist rebels amid siege
MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine government said Sunday that it would suspend offensives against communist guerrillas to reciprocate a similar plan by the insurgents and allow troops to focus on q...
Jun 18, 2017
France condemns Colombia bombing that killed Frenchwoman
PARIS - The French government has condemned an attack in Colombia’s capital that killed three people, including a young Frenchwoman. In a statement Sunday, the French Foreign Ministry offered su...
Jun 18, 2017
Trump attorney says president not under investigation
WASHINGTON - A member of the president’s outside legal team said Sunday that Donald Trump is not under federal investigation, days after Trump appeared to confirm he was with a tweet about being...
Jun 18, 2017
President Macron's party dominates French parliamentary vote
PARIS - French voters gave President Emmanuel Macron’s upstart party a solid victory in Sunday’s parliamentary election, handing the centrist a strong mandate to reshape French politics an...
Jun 18, 2017
